Tritanium Cup Issues

When we have the newer cup out that addresses a ‘problem we don’t have’ they’ll quietly pull the 1st gen cups out of circulation.

 

The same as every other company does? Depuy has a new cup coming to replace pinnacle, what’s the story with that?

 

Pinnacle has been on the market for 15ish years. It was originally designed to accept poly, metal and ceramic liners back when alternate bearings were popular. Makes sense that they'd eventually come out with something with an dual articulation option at some point. Haven't heard of any cup loosening/lysis problems with Pinnacle either. And this is coming from a Stryker rep.

 

Revised two of our own cups last week. Both less than two years out. For the first time ever the Dr asked how we reported revisions and said he had a joint surgeon buddy out East that recently switched from Stryker cups. No clue who that doc is or the details, but I haven't seen a cup come out that easily since my DePuy/ASR days.

 

Nobody here cares unless you have a quip about a Stryker's reps and cocaine abuse.

 

I’m surprised Stryker reps even need cups with all the steroid abuse.

 

New Trident cup announced. Thoughts?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/stryker-launches-next-generation-trident-ii-acetabular-system-300608951.html

 

Already in use in some areas. Have fun explaining to your Dr that we developed a new cup to replace the extisting one that ‘didn’t have a problem’. I’m already having loads of fun dealing with all of the trunion issue discussions since AAKS and AAOS.

 

tritanium primary cups pulled from nyu langone

 

We don’t have a problem with cup loosening or trunion issues. We didn’t redesign our tritanium cup and no one has identified any issues. Oh wait....

 

Just saw my 3rd loose Tritanium P cup......

.....of about 3000 implanted.

Yeah I'm not worried.....and I'd focus on something else....like promising docs free robots for their ASCs if they would convert back to ZB.

....or explaining why they need a collar on their undersized pressfit stem to keep it from subsiding, if I were a Depuy rep.

 

lol no they weren't.

 

Stryker is basically giving away makos so I don’t see how ZB doing that is a problem. End game is implant use anyways.

Collared stems have a great track record. Can’t argue with the clinical data on Corai. Trident 2/ accolade 2, well not so much.

 

Another tritanium primary revision. No ingrowth and just fell out.

 

https://www.arthroplastytoday.org/article/S2352-3441(17)30173-5/pdf

No Doc, Tritanium2 wasn't a need to fix a problem. Just like the S+ attune tibia.

 

How has this thing not been recalled? I’m surprised the lawyers aren’t jumping on this

 

Another one....

 

We had one “fall out” like everyone said here. This isn’t a joke. Havasu Regional Medical Center new hospital employed surgeon. If stryker is paying attention I hope this case was documented correctly after the fact. Lifepoint hospitals are aware of the problem on this side.